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Data Center Backup and Recovery
Data Center Proven Deduplication Storage
Challenges
- Meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs): In
today’s information-intensive environment, rapid data growth poses a serious
challenge in meeting SLAs for backup and recovery — with shrinking backup windows,
reduced recovery time objectives (RTOs) and decreasing tolerance for data loss. You
require nearline storage solutions that deliver automatic, fast, efficient,
streamlined, and reliable data protection and disaster recovery.
- High Costs to Go “Tapeless”: Despite
advantages of disk and shortcomings of tape, conventional disk-based backup systems are
still too expensive to use to go “tapeless.” Backup storage requires 5 to
10 times the primary storage that you are protecting and therefore months of backup data
retention are not affordable.
- Power, Cooling, and Floor Space Considerations:
With green data center initiatives, IT organizations are looking to reduce energy
consumption and save floor space — not to expand it by 5 to 10 times for backup
storage.
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Disaster Recovery (DR): Today, disaster
recovery still remains tape-based, shipping and vaulting tapes offsite. According
to Gartner, one in ten recoveries from tape fails. This means you will likely fail
10% of DR audits.
But more importantly, in DR situations, you require additional time to respond.
After all, you cannot choose which 10% of disasters from which you don’t
recover. Distributed enterprises, where corporate information is spread across data
centers and remote offices, present additional challenges for DR.
- Complex Integration with Existing
Infrastructure: You require a revolutionary nearline storage solution
that simplifies and address these issues. At the same time, you require an evolutionary
solution that is easy to integrate and requires little or no changes to the tested and
stable infrastructure you have built.
Solution
Data Domain has revolutionized disk backup and network-based disaster recovery with
its foundation technologies, such as its
Global Compression™,
which reduces backup data by an overage of 10-30x over time, and
Data Invulnerability
Architecture, providing the ultimate in defense against data integrity issues to ensure
successful, reliable recoveries.
Built on these foundation technologies, Data Domain offers data center scale
solutions with:
- High Capacity and High Throughput: Data
Domain’s data center solutions offer up to 22.4 TB/hour throughput and provide up
to 28.3 petabytes of storage capacity. This capacity ensures extended retention for
nearline data and Data Domain’s high performance allows you to meet your SLAs for
backup and recovery operations.
- Nearline Storage at the Cost of Tape:
Driven by Data Domain’s fast, in-line deduplication technology, Data
Domain’s DDX array configurations significantly reduce physical storage required
for long-term retention and are available for less than $0.35 per GB, essential to a
“tapeless” architecture.
- Green Data Center: By massively reducing
physical storage required, Data Domain also reduces power, energy, and floor space
requirements in the data center. For example, a Data Domain DDX array configuration
with internal storage uses as little as 1.1 watts / TB of power and as little as 9U rack
space per petabyte.
- Flexible DR Configuration: Data Domain DDX Array
Series enables automatic WAN vaulting for DR, acting as a deduplication hub for hundreds
of remote offices as well as being capable of bi-directional replication for cross-site
disaster protection.
- Fully Compatible with All Leading Enterprise Backup
and Archiving Software: All of Data Domain nearline storage systems are
qualified with all leading backup and archiving
software and easily integrate into the existing environment using NAS and/or Virtual Tape
interfaces without any infrastructure changes.
- Modular Scalability: Data Domain offers various
configurations to expand storage capacity from 7 TB 28.3 PB for you to respond to your
changing business requirements.
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